Macroscopic facilitation of glassy relaxation kinetics: Ultrastable glass films with frontlike thermal response
Macroscopic facilitation of glassy relaxation kinetics: Ultrastable glass films with frontlike thermal response
The recent experimental fabrication of ultrastable glass films, via vapor deposition [Swallen et al., Science 315, 353 (2007)] and the observation of frontlike response to the annealing of these films [Swallen et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 065503 (2009)] have raised important questions about the possibility of manipulating the properties …